Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.